Queer Leadership Podcast Series

This Week's Leader: January 9, 2012

DAWN HOUGH

Dawn Hough is Program Director of Pride in Diversity, Australia’s first and only not-for-profit employer support program designed specifically to assist Australian employers with all aspects of LGBT Inclusion.

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"Inclusion is not necessarily about changing people's values and beliefs...and everybody is entitled to their values and beliefs, but what it is about is accepting people for who they are and creating safe environments for everyone..."

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Last Week's Leader:

JODY COLE

Jody Cole is the owner and operator of Wild Rainbow African Safaris, LLC. Her highest achievement to date is successfully summiting Mount Kilimanjaro twice.

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January 2, 2012

"I had to lay myself on the line. I literally had to look in the mirror and say, alright Jody Cole, here you go - you're coming out to the world as a lesbian, you're coming out as a leader and your coming out as a lesbian with wealth, are you ready? And the answer that came back to me was "yes I am and I have to do this..."

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BEN de GUZMAN

Ben de Guzman is a Washington, D.C., based community leader advocating for Asian-Americans and LGBTQ Americans.

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August 22, 2011

"Part of the challenge that we've seen in API (Asian Pacific Islander) communities is that the discussions...seem to center around the ways in which our cultural backgrounds seem to be anathema to the ways in which leadership gets discussed in the US."

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JOEY GASKINS, JR

Joey Gaskins was born in the Bahamas and left at the age of seventeen to attend Ithaca College, in NY where he graduated with honors at the age of twenty with BA in Politics.

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August 15, 2011

"They see police officers stopping them and searching them on the way to school...where violence and drug dealing are a way of life...they look at the shops, things they cannot afford combined with the message that those are the things that make you a real person...there is a collision here, a very violent collision..."

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Prior Interviews:

CHARLENE STRONG

Since the tragic death of her partner, Charlene Strong has become a tireless advocate for equality.

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August 8, 2011

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DOUG PAXTON

Doug Paxton is Co-Director for the Leadership Center at Saint Mary’s College and faculty in the MA in Leadership program.

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August 1, 2011

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LEYLA FARAH

Author of "Black, Gifted and Gay" and the founding partner at Cause + Effect, a PR firm focused exclusively on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

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July 25, 2011

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